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| [[File:Waldenser-Wappen.png|thumb|The coat of arms of the Waldensians: candlestick with inscription Lux lucet in tenebris, The light shines in the darkness, taken from the Gospel of John (1, 5); The seven stars refer to the full number of churches according to the Revelation of John (1:20) Source: ''Wikipedia'']]
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| Here are some quotes from ''Caliban and the Witch''<ref>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/silvia-federici-caliban-and-the-witch.</ref>
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| "Of the Waldenses too an Inquisitor reported that “they avoid all forms of commerce to avoid lies, frauds and oaths,” and he described them as walking barefoot, clad in woolen garments, owning nothing and, like apostles, holding all things in common (Lambert 1992: 64)."
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| "the heretical sects, above all among the Cathars and Waldenses, women had the right to administer the sacraments, preach, baptize and even acquire sacerdotal orders. It is reported that Waldes split from the orthodoxy because his bishop refused to allow women to preach"
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| "Much controversy took place among the Waldenses on the correct ways of supporting oneself. It was resolved, at the Bergamo Meeting of 1218, with a major split between the two main branches of the movement. The French Waldenses (Poor of Lyon) opted for a life supported by alms, while those of Lombardy decided that one must live out of his/her own labor and proceeded to form workers’ collectives or cooperatives (congregationes laborantium) (di Stefano 1950: 775). The Lombard Waldenses continued to maintain private possessions—houses and other forms of property—and they accepted marriage and the family (Little 1978: 125)."
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| "By 1210 the Church had labeled the demand for the abolition of the death penalty an heretical 'error,' which it attributed to the Waldenses and the Cathars. So strong was the presumption that the opponents of the Church were abolitionists that every heretic who wanted to submit to the Church had to affirm that “the secular power can, without mortal sin, exercise judgement of blood, provided that it punishes with justice, not out of hatred, with prudence, not precipitation” (Mergivern 1997: 101). As J. J. Mergivern points out, the heretical movement took the moral high ground on this question, and 'forced the "orthodox," ironically, to take up the defense of a very questionable practice' (ibid.: 103)."
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| Here are quotes from "The Forerunners of Anarchism"<ref>https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emile-armand-the-forerunners-of-anarchism</ref>:
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| "In 1213 Waldensians were burned in Strasbourg because they promoted free love and communal living on the land. They were not “scholars” but simple craftsmen, weavers, shoemakers, carpenters, masons, etc...."
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| "Waldensians early Protestant movement, faced severe persecution from the 1200s-1800s, still exist in small congregations around the world."
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